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by TeMPOraL 249 days ago
Compare with news stories from last decade, about people in Pakistan developing a deep fear of clear skies over several years of US drone strikes in the area. They became trained to associate good weather with not beauty, but impending death.
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Fear and a sense of beauty aren’t mutually exclusive. It is perfectly congruent to fear a snake, or bear, or tiger in your presence, yet you can still find them beautiful.
An asteroid barreling towards Earth is undoubtedly beautiful, as is a mushroom cloud.